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The Bitcoin futures market has a major expiry date on Friday. Roughly $2.3 billion worth of Bitcoin futures is set to expire on Christmas day, setting the stage for a volatile week in the cryptocurrency market. In a Monday tweet, crypto data provider Skew reported that 102,200 Bitcoin (BTC)...

Daily highs of $23,625 for Bitcoin price show fresh bullish appetite. Bitcoin (BTC) price hit highs above $23,500 on Dec. 22 as Monday’s weakness flipped to see bulls challenge previous levels. BTC price in 5.2% daily gains Data from Cointelegraph Markets, Coin360 and TradingView show BTC/USD...

Bitcoin is currently in price discovery but a drop to the $18,500 region in the short term shouldn't be ruled out. Bitcoin (BTC) price has seen a massive rally in previous months, accelerating from $10,000 to a recent all-time high of around $23,700. This is a rally of 135% in just a matter of a...

The price of Bitcoin has cut through another critical resistance range putting $100,000 in play, on-chain data suggests. The Bitcoin price (BTC) has surpassed the $21,000–$22,000 resistance range to rise above a new high of $23,000 on Dec. 17. Meanwhile, on-chain analyst Willy Woo now says...

The price of Bitcoin just hit $20,000 for the first time ever in a historic milestone for the world’s most popular cryptocurrency. The price of Bitcoin (BTC) has reached $20,000 for the first time in history on Dec. 16. The historic milestone comes just over two weeks after breaking its...

Ethereum has begun to bounce strongly since last week’s lows, correlating with a move higher in the price of BTC. ETH currently trades for $590, though moved extremely close to $600 earlier today. Analysts are optimistic that the cryptocurrency will continue its ascent in the days and weeks...

After consolidating for many days, Bitcoin underwent one final push ahead of the weekly candle close just minutes ago. The price of the leading cryptocurrency currently trades for $19,400, far above the weekly lows. This one final push allowed BTC to push to its highest weekly close ever...

Bitcoin has undergone a strong rally over the past few weeks, rallying from the $11,000 range to $18,700 as of this article’s writing. A comparison between BTC’s current rally and the rally that Tesla saw in late 2019 suggests that in the year ahead, BTC could be primed to see exponential...

Bitcoin rose above $19,000 on Tuesday after Donald Trump said his administration would assist President-elect Joe Biden’s transition to the White House, easing investors’ concerns about a prolonged period of election uncertainty. The BTC/USD exchange rate rose 3.89 percent to a new year-to-date...

Sophos, a British provider of cybersecurity solutions, is notifying customers of an incident that the company encountered earlier this week. The official announcement reads: "on November 24, 2020, Sophos became aware of a problem with access rights to the tool used to store information about...

Fireblocks, an enterprise-grade storage platform for cryptocurrencies, announced today it has raised $30 million in Series B funding, bringing its cumulative fundraising to $46 million. This round was led by Paradigm with participation from existing investors, Cyberstarts, Tenaya Capital...

The CEO of the Securities and Futures Commission (SFC), Ashley Alder, said in a discourse that Hong Kong will before long manage all digital currency exchanging stages, regardless of whether they exchange securities. Digital currency and other virtual resource venture items have started...

One of the world's largest cryptocurrency exchanges, Liquid, reported the attack last week. The company said that on November 13, 2020, an unknown attacker compromised the email accounts of several employees and eventually penetrated the company's internal network. The administration of Liquid...

Axelar, a decentralized interoperability fabric that connects blockchain ecosystems, applications and users, has announced seed funding of $3.75 million with investments secured from, Binance X, the Binance Smart Chain Accelerator Fund, an arm of Binance – the popular cryptocurrency exchange...

The us company Microsoft has recorded cyber attacks by Russian and North Korean hackers on seven companies that develop vaccines and medicines for coronavirus. This is stated in a statement by Microsoft Vice President of security Tom Burt. The text says that three groups under the code names...

Bitcoin price is up over 3% and it gained strength from the $13,000 support against the US Dollar. BTC is now facing a heavy resistance near the $13,650 and $13,700 levels. Bitcoin remained well bid above the $13,000 level and it started a fresh increase. The price broke the $13,500 resistance...

Bitcoin’s new highs come amid lots of new money pouring in via stablecoins. According to Tether’s official transparency data, the USDT market cap crossed a $17 billion mark for the first time, hitting over $17 billion in total assets. Tether’s market cap has been growing exponentially in 2020...

Attackers who carry out BEC attacks conduct operations in at least 39 different countries and are responsible for annual losses of $26 billion. IB specialists from The agari cyber intelligence Department analyzed more than 9 thousand cases of BEC attacks (business email compromise) around the...

With a market cap now over $1.5 billion, Wrapped Bitcoin (WBTC) makes up 80% of the total BTC held on Ethereum. Wrapped Bitcoin (WBTC) reached all-time highs today in terms of market capitalization and number of tokens. WBTC is the most popular version of Bitcoin tokenized for use on the...

Hundreds of thousands of sites running popular content management systems (CMS) WordPress, Joomla, Magneto and Drupal were hacked and included in the kashmirblack botnet, used by cybercriminals for cryptocurrency mining, fraud and deface. According to the information security company Imperva...